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wastrel🔊

(dated) One who is profligate, who wastes time or resources extravagantly.

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And so with one thing and other the auld witch raised the fiends of jealousy in that innocent heart. She would cry out that Heriotside was an ill-doing wastrel, and had no business to come and flatter honest lassies.

(obsolete) A neglected child.

(obsolete) Refuse; rubbish.

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